[ale] ACPI APM, Power Management Mandrake 9.1

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

Dow Hurst wrote:
> And also, if acpi is enabled and forced but misconfigured by the acpi 
> module then you can get strange behavior.  I have had one machine that 
> would only show a black screen, essentially no video output, when acpi 
> was forced.  That same machine only worked correctly to a certain extent 
> when acpi was disabled and no apm was run.  The ethernet card wasn't 
> functioning when acpi was enabled and the video card shut off or quit 
> sending signal when acpi was forced.  This was an XFX motherboard and a 
> SuSE 8.2 default athlon kernel. That machine needs a newer kernel and 
> one day I'll get to it. ;-)

And of course there are those vendors shipping broken acpi as well...

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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